Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

I'm not sure who's right, who's wrong, but it doesn't matter. Sometimes you just have to do what you're told. That's who we are!

I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.

You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.

... love moves the world along.

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait.

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

In the end is my beginning.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.